Elon Musk has denied a Wall Street Journal report claiming he had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, accusing the outlet of running “hit pieces” on him and Tesla.

WALL STREET JOURNAL:

“Elon Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, prompting the Google co-founder to file for divorce earlier this year and ending the tech billionaires’ long friendship, according to people familiar with the matter.”

Musk posted on social media late Sunday evening that the claims were ‘total bs’ and that Sergey and the Tesla billionaire are friends.

“This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night! I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic.”

The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend, without identifying any credible sources, that Musk had engaged in a brief affair with Shanahan in December last year. The paper claimed the affair had prompted Brin to file for divorce from Shanahan in January and had ended the tech billionaires’ long friendship.

Musk tweeted that he was at a party with Brin on Sunday and that there was “nothing romantic” between him and Shanahan, a lawyer and research fellow at CodeX, an organization dedicated to using technology to improve legal processes.

In a later tweet, Musk said he had “lost count” of the number of “hit pieces” about him published by the Wall Street Journal. Musk claimed the news organization had once reported that the FBI was about to arrest him and that he confronted the FBI personally to find out if this was true. According to Musk, the FBI said the WSJ reporting was not true.

A 2018 WSJ article alleging a criminal investigation into Tesla, however, does not refer to arrests being planned as reported by The Guardian.